The Market Harborough Artist – Floating in the Midnight Sky

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This weeks painting from our Market Harborough Artist is ‘Floating in the Midnight Sky’ painted onto canvas board with acrylics and chalk. 40cm x 40cm

Buying Iris’s Artwork

To find out details about the Original painting which is available or to order a giclee print please email Arabella at irisgracepainting@yahoo.com

Shipping

All print orders are shipped using tracked and signed delivery with Royal Mail. Iris’s Original paintings are packed in their own wooden crates and shipped via Pack & Send.

For the United Kingdom we have a flat rate of £14.00 covering postage, packing and insurance.

For the Rest of the World we use the following rate to cover postage, packing and insurance:

Orders up to £275: £30.00

Market Harborough Artist

Iris painting ‘Floating in the Midnight Sky’ with Thula by her side. We are very lucky to have such beautiful light in the garden room and it has become the perfect place for Iris to paint in our home near Market Harborough, Leicestershire. The picture below is an example of the painting mounted and framed. I love the soft pastels, it almost feels like lavender granite to me, like a mixture of smells, a touch of stone but with the fluid nature of water or a landscape seen from above. I can even see the movement of sand falling or dust in the air. Maybe it’s because I see what intrigues her, what delights and takes her attention into far away places. Sometimes I wonder what others can see. For everyone it’s a different experience.

Being a young Painter

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One of the advantages I feel of discovering a love for art when you are young is that there are no boundaries, it’s all about fun, exploring textures and colour. How different materials react. As a young painter Iris isn’t set or fixed into a particular way of doing things and it is about the experience of doing that is therapeutic.

Here is her latest painting, ‘Over the mountains, over the sea’ painted onto canvas board with acrylics. 40cm x 40cm

This one reminds me of the Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh with it’s contrasting tones and dreamlike movement. I love how her artwork is developing and changing as she experiments and we see new ideas from this young painter.

To find out details about the Original painting which is available please email Arabella at irisgracepainting@yahoo.com or to see what other paintings are available click here

Getting your mind’s eye in the groove

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Sometimes it can be difficult to imagine what a piece of artwork will look like once it’s mounted and framed up on the wall. Would it be best positioned above a mantlepiece or your office desk? Maybe in the kitchen or living room? Iris and I have created some mock-ups for you to see, examples of her work in interiors to get your mind’s eye in the groove so you can easily start to picture her framed pieces up in your own home.

Prints are available to buy from her online shop in a variation of sizes – https://www.irisgracepaintingshop.com/collections/all

Giclee Printing

Using extremely ‘high end’ scan-back camera technology and daylight balanced lighting, we are able to create an incredibly accurate and detailed digital image from Iris’s Original Paintings.

Our colour management ensures consistency and guarantees the highest standards and quality of image. With the very latest in art printing technology with fully calibrated photo-scanning, processing and printing equipment, we pay fastidious attention to colour balancing to ensure extremely accurate reproduction.

The word Giclée (“g-clay”), is derived from the French verb gicler meaning “to squirt or spray”, Giclée, is used to describe a fine art digital printing process combining pigment based inks with high quality archival quality paper (Hahnemühle German Etching, 310 gsm) to achieve Giclée prints of superior archival quality, light fastness and stability.

Profits from the sales of her art go towards her therapies, education and future.

Market Harborough Art

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Artwork mounted and framed by Iris Grace

Art made in Market Harborough, displayed online

Sometimes it can be difficult to imagine what a piece of artwork will look like once it’s mounted and framed up on the wall. Especially when looking at the images of the paintings online. Iris’s art is all painted at home in East Farndon close to Market Harborough but we display her work on her website & online shop.

See Iris’s paintings from anywhere in the world not just in Market Harborough

This gives anyone from any location at any time the chance to view her collection. We do understand that it can be hard to work out if it would be best positioned above a mantlepiece or your office desk? Maybe in the kitchen or living room?

So Iris and I have created some mock-ups for you to see, examples of her work in interiors to get your mind’s eye in the groove so you can easily start to picture her framed pieces up in your own home.

Picture the paintings in your own home

Prints are available to buy from her online shop.

Giclee Printing

Using extremely ‘high end’ scan-back camera technology and daylight balanced lighting, we are able to create an incredibly accurate and detailed digital image from Iris’s Original Paintings.

Using extremely ‘high end’ scan-back camera technology and daylight balanced lighting, we are able to create an incredibly accurate and detailed digital image. Our colour management ensures consistency and guarantees the highest standards and quality of image.

We pay fastidious attention to colour balancing to ensure extremely accurate reproduction. With the very latest in art printing technology with fully calibrated photo-scanning, processing and printing equipment.

The word Giclée (“g-clay”), is derived from the French verb gicler meaning “to squirt or spray”. Giclée, is used to describe a fine art digital printing process combining pigment based inks with high quality archival quality paper (Hahnemühle German Etching, 310 gsm) to achieve Giclée prints of superior archival quality, light fastness and stability.

Profits from the sales of her art go towards her therapies, education and future.

Iris’s New Painting ‘Eyebrook’

February 8, 2017February 8, 2017Leave a comment

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This week we have released Iris’s new painting called ‘Eyebrook’. It’s named after Eyebrook reservoir which is somewhere that has been a favourite of Iris’s lately.

You can buy a print through her online shop here – Eyebrook Giclee Print

The Printer uses the very latest in art printing technology with fully calibrated photo-scanning, processing and printing equipment, they pay fastidious attention to colour balancing to ensure extremely accurate reproduction. All of the profits raised from the sales of her prints go towards her ongoing therapies, education and some saved for her future.

Here are some detail images from the painting

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Tumpty Tum

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The painting began with stomping elephants, lions and tigers on the prowl. Iris loved seeing the footprints in the paint and would look up at me pointing at each animal saying their name. She was inventing new ways to include her toys, making marks, shapes creating textures on the paper. Now and again I heard her say ‘tum, tum, tumpty tum,’ I thought at first it was to do with her trying to make elephant noises as she plodded his feet onto the paper but later on I realised what is was from. She has a book with a cd and we have also got her the app called My first Classical Music Book, it was open on the page called ‘People’, the people in this book were the composers, Brahms, Beethoven, Handel, Bach, Mozart, Adams, Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky. There is a cartoon drawing of a composer trying to write a piece of music saying ‘Tum Tum, Tumpty Tum, Tiddly Pom…’ Iris was doing the same as she painted singing along working on her piece. So I have named this one ‘Tumpty Tum’ it’s 55cm x 75cm, painted with watercolours and acrylics on watercolour paper. and a detail shot of the painting

If you are interested in a print of ‘Tumpty Tum’ please do email me, Arabella at irisgracepainting@yahoo.com We are offering free postage in July and here are the print prices 55cm x 75cm (same size as the original) – £127.00 ($217.93) 42cm x 56.5cm – £92.00 ($157.87) 33cm x 44.5cm – £57.00 ($97.81) 23cm x 31cm – £38.00 ($65.21) All of the profits raised from the sales of her prints go towards her ongoing therapies and some saved for her future.

Spring Dance

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I have made a photograph diary of this latest painting to show the variation in Iris’s techniques, how she explores different textures and colours in her kitchen art studio and out in the garden with her faithful assistant Thula.

Day One

Day Two

Day Three

Day Four

Day Five

Day Six and Seven

Day Eight, the Finished Painting.

‘Spring Dance’ 55cm x 75cm

Detail section of the painting

This is a possible crop for a panoramic frame.

If you are interested in buying any of Iris’s Prints please email us at irisgracepainting@yahoo.com

Prints come with a certificate and will be sent out in a tube. Postage within the UK is £12.00 and £16.50 for International.

55cm x 75cm (same size as the original) – £127.00
42cm x 56.5cm – £92.00
33cm x 44.5cm – £57.00
23cm x 31cm – £38.00

Carmen Fantasy

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Carmen Fantasy, 55cm x 75cm

Iris selects her new app on the iPad called ‘My first Orchestra,’ she quickly presses the violins section and then plays ‘Carmen Fantasy, Op.25’. As the violin twirls around like Carmen the Spanish Gypsy, Iris begins to paint once again on the painting that had been drying on the coffee table. The Painting before her is as flamboyant as the music, colours merge, she gently sponges off little pockets of paint creating intriguing effects. ‘V for Violin’, ‘V for Violin’ she says over and over again. The Violin has been used with varying success in the past, the intensity and strong emotional connections can sometimes be too overwhelming for her but now she seeks it out to hear it sing.

Here is the app that she loves so much: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/my-first-orchestra-app-hd/id568583429?mt=8

and Iris working on the painting with Thula

The photo below is a close up detail, once the painting was finished and dry.

Paquita

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Paquita, 55cm x 75cm

Holding a brush in each hand she paints, first a layer of red, dancing with a gypsy soul full of wanderlust. Blues and greens are next, a long utensil with a sponge on it’s tip is soaking, then with high flicks Iris creates pools of colour so close that her tummy almost touches the watery paint. Now with a different sponge and another brush she explores, finding new paths and making discoveries within the painting. Her spirit is free and her style her own, adding touches of yellow and finally when most of the painting is dry she uses the white. As I make a cup of tea in our kitchen come art studio I see her mix some of the colours left in the mugs. She doesn’t use them on the paper, this is for the joy of watching the colours change and the way they swirl and move, a contented happiness fills the room from this simple pleasure.

“Find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all.” –

Robert Louis Stevenson

Namazzi Blue

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Namazzi Blue, 55cm x 75cm

With springs in her feet she jumps, bounces and leaps for joy as she watches the rain, rivers, streams and fountains, intrigued by their movement and ever changing nature. Impressions in her mind that later can be seen on paper. A tremendous amount of tools and brushes lie before her, a collection that has slowly built over the last year. Thoughtfully picking out a few, Iris experiments with rolling, stamping, smudging, dabbing and carefully sponging the paint creating a beautiful effect. I am reminded of a rippling stream, you can almost hear it.

The Tale of Green

February 12, 2014February 12, 20141 Comment

‘The Tale of Green’
55cm x 75cm

Green paint swirls around the ceramic bowl as Iris carefully stirs. Her whole body swaying in time with the brush, intense focus on the colour before her transports Iris’s mind, body and soul into an elated almost hypnotic state. I’m at the sink dampening a sponge, so it’s ready to wipe up any unwanted spillages on the floor and as I turn, she is beaming a smile up at me, this is my chance to talk about her painting, the colours, shapes and patterns. A pathway to Iris using paper and paints, creating a connection between language and it’s true meaning. I pause, I hear her voice, her beautiful voice ‘Greeeeen,’ with a smile so big it could fill the room. It takes all my strength not to just go over and squish her with a huge hug and a thousand kisses, but I fear that would be going over the top and make her feel self conscious. I compromise with a little celebration and one kiss on her forehead but she gives me a look as if to say I am very busy and still have important work to do so I back off. After all, there is painting still to be done and within moments the paper that lies across the coffee table is filled with a sea of green.

A-Where-Wa

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‘A-Where-Wa’ 55cm x 75cm

I call Iris over to see her latest painting on the computer screen, she sits on my lap and we both look at the swirling colour formations and I try to think of a suitable name. Iris has been particularly chatty lately, mostly in her own made up language but it’s a progression that we are all very proud of. So I ask her what she thinks the painting should be called and she leans back into my arms and looks straight at me smiling and then repeats the words ‘a-where-wa’ over and over again. Job done, she walks off to play with some toys, now vocalising a whole load of ‘b’ sounds as she pushes her Postman Pat van along the ground. Feeling uncertain if I should use this name, I ask her once again what the painting should be called and she repeats the same words ‘a-where-wa’ once again, clearly and without hesitation. So there we have it, here is ‘A-Where-Wa’ Iris’s first painting that she has named all by herself.

Prints in 42cm x 56.5cm, 33cm x 44.5cm and 23cm x 31cm aswell as the full size.